The Archive · 1937

No. More Orders

Rice merchants in "Hongkong are Jaisappointed that only 1,000,000 piculs fare permitted to enter Kwangtung duty free, as the original decision was 2,000,000 piculs of rice and the same amount of paddy. As a result of this decrease, rice firms have suspended (further orders from Indo-China, Slam Jand Rangoon, Answering the attacks of rice dealers in the interior, who wish to sell their stock to Kwangtung, a tice merchant here explained that nor-them rice is more expensive than imported. He said that the farmers in the South cannot grow enough rice 10 feed the 30,000,000 people.of this, Province, Lack of irrigation, poot seed and poverty of the farmers are the causes for the insuMelent rice crops in Kwangtung, 9

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